The Thorn Birds
Edition: Third impression
Publisher: Macdonald & Company
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780354042314
Copyright date: 1977
Description: The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of three generations. It begins in the early years of this century when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda: an Australian sheep station, a quarter of a million well-stocked acres, owned by his autocratic and childless older sister. For more than half a century we follow their fates.

As background to the Cleary's family lives there is the land itself: stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful. It is like no other place on earth, and binds fast those who have known it, however hard they try to break its hold.
--front flap
Notes: UK